The Works of Mr. A. Cowley: In Prose and Verse, Volume 1John Sharpe, 1809 |
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Pagina 62
... fantastick fairy - land did show ; Gods , devils , nymphs , witches , and giants ' race , And all but man , in man's chief work had place . Thou , like some worthy knight with sacred arms , Dost drive the monsters thence , and end the ...
... fantastick fairy - land did show ; Gods , devils , nymphs , witches , and giants ' race , And all but man , in man's chief work had place . Thou , like some worthy knight with sacred arms , Dost drive the monsters thence , and end the ...
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... fantastick round , But neither change their motion nor their ground : Had Harvey to this road confin'd his wit , [ yet . His noble circle of the blood had been untrodden Great Doctor ! th'art of curing's cur'd by thee ; We now thy ...
... fantastick round , But neither change their motion nor their ground : Had Harvey to this road confin'd his wit , [ yet . His noble circle of the blood had been untrodden Great Doctor ! th'art of curing's cur'd by thee ; We now thy ...
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Æneid Anacreon beauteous beauty birds play blessings blest breast bright CATULLUS colours Cowley Cowley's curse Davideis death delight didst divine Donne dost thou doth drink e'er earth ev'n fair fame fancy fantastick fate fire flame ganon gentle glory gold Gondibert grow hand happy hast heart heaven honour images Ismenus join'd KATHARINE PHILIPS king labour land land arts learned Lesbos less light live Lord lord Falkland lover metaphysical poets methinks mighty mind mistress Muse Nature ne'er never night noble numbers o'er once Orinda Pindar poem poesy poet poetical poetry praise Prince rage reign rich sacred sad cypress Sappho shew shine sing soul spirit Sprat stars sure thee thine things thou dost thought truth verse virtue Whilst WILLIAM DAVENANT wind wine wise wonders write
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Pagina 167 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Pagina lii - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Pagina xxviii - ... a combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together...
Pagina 61 - If I should tell the politic arts To take and keep men's hearts ; The letters, embassies, and spies, The frowns, and smiles, and flatteries, The quarrels, tears, and perjuries (Numberless, nameless, mysteries...
Pagina 28 - Women love't, either in Love or Dress. A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in thousand shapes appears. Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not How.
Pagina 166 - And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others...
Pagina lxxxix - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Pagina lxxx - Wash'd from the morning beauties' deepest red; An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care; He cuts out a silk mantle from the skies, Where the most sprightly azure...
Pagina 81 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee ; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he, and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy ; Nor does thy luxury destroy.